Alexander Roslin, Self-portrait with his wife Marie Suzanne Giroust painting a portrait of Henrik Wilhelm Peill, 1767.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired a portrait of Alexander Roslin and his wife Marie Suzanne Giroust painted by the artist himself. The museum had the opportunity to acquire this unique and rarely shown work. The acquisition has been made possible by an extraordinary contribution from the Friends of Nationalmuseum.
The newly acquired Roslin family portrait was painted by Alexander Roslin in 1767. In the... [Lire la suite]

Self-portrait by Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641), £12,500,000 needed to keep it in the UK.
LONDON.- A self-portrait by Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641), one of his finest and most intimate works dating from his time in the UK, has had a temporary export bar placed on it to provide a last chance to raise the £12,500,000 needed to keep it in the UK.
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey took the decision to defer granting an export licence for the painting following a recommendation by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of... [Lire la suite]

Rembrandt, Self-Portrait with Shaded Eyes, 1634.
BROOKLYN, NY.- An installation of six seventeenth-century Dutch portraits and genre scenes, including two paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn, went on view today in the Brooklyn Museum’s European paintings gallery in the Beaux-Arts Court. The six paintings are on long-term loan from a private New York collection.
The Rembrandts, Self-Portrait with Shaded Eyes (1634) and Portrait of Anthonie Coopal (1635), were both painted in Amsterdam when the artist was in his late twenties.... [Lire la suite]

NEW YORK, NY.- The market for important works by Andy Warhol, the reigning king of Pop, continued to reach new heights at Christie’s New York tonight, as bidders chased two iconic self-portraits by the artist, setting a new world auction record for a Warhol portrait in the process. The photo-booth style Self-Portrait, 1963-64 sold for $38,442,500 (£23,449,925/€26,909,750) after an epic 16 minute bidding battle between clients in the room and on the phone. After volleying bids back and forth for what was the longest Evening Sale... [Lire la suite]

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1986. Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 106-3/4 x 106-1/2 x 1-3/4 inches. Estimate: $30,000,000-40,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011
NEW YORK, NY.- Andy Warhol’s last great Self-Portrait, 1986, will headline the Post-War and Contemporary Auction season in New York at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening sale on May 11, 2011. An art-historical landmark, the monumental painting is poignantly underscored with the theme of a fleeting lifetime, and is estimated to realize from... [Lire la suite]

Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Self-portrait. Executed in 1967 (detail). Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011
LONDON.- Christie’s announce the rediscovery of a highly important, monumental-scale self-portrait by Andy Warhol (1928-1987). Executed in 1967 and an addition to an historically important series of 10 self- portraits, the picture has been in a private collection since 1974 when it was acquired from Leo Castelli, Warhol’s primary dealer. It will be offered at the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Wednesday 16... [Lire la suite]